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Gorge Vetch

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Posted by John Williams on May 2, 2008 at 9:42 PM
Gorge Vetch
I love the color of the vetch, but was a little disappointed with the comp on the photos I took of it. I would like to have centered the poppy, but there was a gap in the vetch to the lower left. I took several other photos with poppies centered, but the vetch was a bit sparse. I finally settled on this one, and I'll just pretend I wanted to compose the poppy down there :smile: .

Nikon D80
Nikon 50mm f/1.8
1/350sec, f/8, ISO 100
Posted by Tom Kloster on May 2, 2008 at 11:43 PM
Great colors, John. I agree that the composition is a bit off. The part that distracts me is the soft focus on the right 1/3 of the image. Have you experimented with some crops to concentrate on the in-focus portions around the poppy?
Posted by Darren White on May 3, 2008 at 12:05 AM
Great color and Texture here John....

I personally would crop a good portion of the right side off....make this a vert shot!!!

Posted by Catherine Reilly on May 3, 2008 at 12:26 AM
In that scene it looks like the vetch would be great to use in cramming a shot of the poppy. the vetch would be the "crammer." :smile:
Posted by Ned Fenimore on May 3, 2008 at 1:46 AM
The half dried vetch doesn't do a lot for me, but I like Catherine's idea - that would be some great abstract out of focus color to go with that bloom if it were to work..
Posted by Mark Hudon on May 3, 2008 at 10:48 AM
All in all though, I think the light is simply too harsh.